SMS is a bad example. The way SMS works makes it a scarce resource. On the Cell tower, there are a limited number of command channels vs data channels, command channels are used for connection maintenance, call setup, and SMS, while data channels are used for voice, and on older protocols, data. What happens when SMS is abused, is that the tower becomes unusable for phones to make calls, their primary purpose. SMS is therefore priced at a point where people can use it, but that they do not abuse it generally.
Verizon (the subject of this article) actually does pretty good QoS, and rarely ever throttle. I have actually crashed my internet router from bittorrent, and not lagged out online games whatsoever (until the router crashed at least...) I also, always get my bandwidth, even when I am downloading with bittorrent. But this could be because I am on FiOS, which is kind of a premium fiber connection, and the backend has more speed to match the load.
Verizon FiOS is actually quite good at giving you what you pay for. My 20/5 gets 20/5, and I have never had something throttled or delayed. So not sure why they are fighting net neutrality, they already do it.
I never had a complaint about the firmness of the buttons on the Nook e-ink, but the touch page turns on the Nook Color is very irritating, I miss the buttons. However, having Cyanagen mod on the NC vastly makes up for its deficiencies.
Touchscreen on a device you read from seems...odd. It being e-ink also means that there is no backlight to allow the screen to shine through smudges (like my Nook color) so I imagine the smudges would get rather obnoxious.
The main thing I have a problem with, is that generally, the price of an ebook is the same as mass market paperback, but yet it costs near nothing to produce the ebook...
I am working on replacing books that are falling apart, and I think it is absurd I have to rebuy the book on my e-reader. I agree with you, I should be able to scan something on the book and somehow get the book on my reader, but I can see that being abused too. So how about if Amazon and Barnes and Noble look into my purchase history, and just give me all the ebooks for the treebooks I bought?
That would be one hell of a good will geasture from the e-book retailers, but they won't do it. Artists must get paid after all...
I have to say, knowing a few poorer people (not homeless, but not middle class) they do have a tenancy to buy things that they don't need, then not have enough money for what they do need. Many have nice flat screen TVs, Playstations (or Xbox, depending on preference) but no food in the pantry.
I have a friend who is an Australian immigrant to the US, he drinks Milwaukee's Best. It always made me laugh, and when he asked why, I just couldn't explain it.
In Maryland, the Sodomy, Fellatio and Adultery laws result in a $5 fine, and generally are not enforced. I had to ask my lawyer when getting a divorce as my ex wife was concerned about admitting her adultery.
Link? I have no idea what either of you are talking about as I don't seem to get all that much news about South America (of which Brasil is only a small part...)
These shelves (that are on the water btw) didn't disappear either, take a look at the pictures, they are the ends of the glaciers that hang out in the water, they are going to reduce over time.
Usually everything in the quote box after that is written by the submitter. The editor didn't throw in his own comment on this story, so direct your vitriol at eldavojohn, not Soulskill.
Though, I do agree with you, that comment about dispelling was utterly moronic. These ice sheets are thousands of years old...oh, they are from the last ice age, so they would melt anyways. Antarctic ice that is millions of years old would be more worrying if it was melting.
Funny, but this gives no evidence of either man made or natural climate change. These ice sheets were created in the last ice age, which is still ending, so they were likely to melt either way.
The woman got 2nd and 3rd degree burns, this isn't just hot coffee, it is dangerously hot coffee. I have spilled coffee on myself while driving, it was from royal farms, no I didn't sue. I also didn't get blisters and my skin melting off of me.
In that particular industry, they are held accountable. This is why the software for aviation is so heavily tested and costs many times what commercial software costs.
Comment by mikegesm...@gmail.com, Jul 18, 2010 my problem is this I have dell this is latin to me iam new on this so I don't no my ins and out's i have igoogle and classsic google and iwant google chrome if I new what to push or change or deleat or move or what then it mite not be so bad it's like somebody putting on blandfold and walking in to a minefeild. I could realy use some help from someone who no's what there talking about. please let me know. this suck's they did not have this when I was in school ?.
Holy crap...so, this guy owns a computer, and hasn't figured out how to install software? That is scary... Also, for someone who is "out of school" that is the worst spelling/grammar I have ever seen. I occasionally make a typo, but this guy can't get through a sentence.
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SMS is a bad example. The way SMS works makes it a scarce resource. On the Cell tower, there are a limited number of command channels vs data channels, command channels are used for connection maintenance, call setup, and SMS, while data channels are used for voice, and on older protocols, data. What happens when SMS is abused, is that the tower becomes unusable for phones to make calls, their primary purpose. SMS is therefore priced at a point where people can use it, but that they do not abuse it generally.
Verizon (the subject of this article) actually does pretty good QoS, and rarely ever throttle. I have actually crashed my internet router from bittorrent, and not lagged out online games whatsoever (until the router crashed at least...) I also, always get my bandwidth, even when I am downloading with bittorrent. But this could be because I am on FiOS, which is kind of a premium fiber connection, and the backend has more speed to match the load.
Verizon FiOS is actually quite good at giving you what you pay for. My 20/5 gets 20/5, and I have never had something throttled or delayed. So not sure why they are fighting net neutrality, they already do it.
I never had a complaint about the firmness of the buttons on the Nook e-ink, but the touch page turns on the Nook Color is very irritating, I miss the buttons. However, having Cyanagen mod on the NC vastly makes up for its deficiencies.
I was specifically speaking of the dam, thank you for the enlightening though.
Touchscreen on a device you read from seems...odd. It being e-ink also means that there is no backlight to allow the screen to shine through smudges (like my Nook color) so I imagine the smudges would get rather obnoxious.
The main thing I have a problem with, is that generally, the price of an ebook is the same as mass market paperback, but yet it costs near nothing to produce the ebook...
I am working on replacing books that are falling apart, and I think it is absurd I have to rebuy the book on my e-reader. I agree with you, I should be able to scan something on the book and somehow get the book on my reader, but I can see that being abused too. So how about if Amazon and Barnes and Noble look into my purchase history, and just give me all the ebooks for the treebooks I bought?
That would be one hell of a good will geasture from the e-book retailers, but they won't do it. Artists must get paid after all...
If you want to move from Kindle to Nook, you buy Nook color, put Cyanagen mod on it, and load the Kindle app from the app store :)
Or break the DRM (illegal in the US)
Wow, that is funny.
I have to say, knowing a few poorer people (not homeless, but not middle class) they do have a tenancy to buy things that they don't need, then not have enough money for what they do need. Many have nice flat screen TVs, Playstations (or Xbox, depending on preference) but no food in the pantry.
I have a friend who is an Australian immigrant to the US, he drinks Milwaukee's Best. It always made me laugh, and when he asked why, I just couldn't explain it.
In Maryland, the Sodomy, Fellatio and Adultery laws result in a $5 fine, and generally are not enforced. I had to ask my lawyer when getting a divorce as my ex wife was concerned about admitting her adultery.
Link? I have no idea what either of you are talking about as I don't seem to get all that much news about South America (of which Brasil is only a small part...)
You should have logged in, this was a very good rebuttal, and is much more intelligent than who he replied to.
These shelves (that are on the water btw) didn't disappear either, take a look at the pictures, they are the ends of the glaciers that hang out in the water, they are going to reduce over time.
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Usually everything in the quote box after that is written by the submitter. The editor didn't throw in his own comment on this story, so direct your vitriol at eldavojohn, not Soulskill.
Though, I do agree with you, that comment about dispelling was utterly moronic. These ice sheets are thousands of years old...oh, they are from the last ice age, so they would melt anyways. Antarctic ice that is millions of years old would be more worrying if it was melting.
Funny, but this gives no evidence of either man made or natural climate change. These ice sheets were created in the last ice age, which is still ending, so they were likely to melt either way.
and take off the damned tinfoil hat.
Very important! Magnetic fields of that strength plus aluminum could hurt.
Works well for CDs, just doesn't smell too good. Don't do this at work, people get pissed.
The woman got 2nd and 3rd degree burns, this isn't just hot coffee, it is dangerously hot coffee. I have spilled coffee on myself while driving, it was from royal farms, no I didn't sue. I also didn't get blisters and my skin melting off of me.
In the case of Japan, they even live quite a bit longer.
There are the low class people - too sick, stupid or lazy or whatever to get a job (I'm one).
Which one? :)
You have the Windows 7 source code? Damn, why aren't you sharing.
Please share anyways, I am sure it will cause LOLs all around :)
In that particular industry, they are held accountable. This is why the software for aviation is so heavily tested and costs many times what commercial software costs.
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Comment by mikegesm...@gmail.com, Jul 18, 2010
my problem is this I have dell this is latin to me iam new on this so I don't no my ins and out's i have igoogle and classsic google and iwant google chrome if I new what to push or change or deleat or move or what then it mite not be so bad it's like somebody putting on blandfold and walking in to a minefeild. I could realy use some help from someone who no's what there talking about. please let me know. this suck's they did not have this when I was in school ?.
Holy crap...so, this guy owns a computer, and hasn't figured out how to install software? That is scary... Also, for someone who is "out of school" that is the worst spelling/grammar I have ever seen. I occasionally make a typo, but this guy can't get through a sentence.
Except that if I added one, it would be immediately reverted. I won't do Wikipedia edits until they fix that problem.